PTC Industries has been awarded a development contract for critical components for the DRDO-GTRE Combat Aircraft Engine development programme. Given the Government of India’s directives on ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ and the current geopolitical situation, the Ministry of Defence’s initiative to design, develop, and manufacture its own fighter aircraft platforms will result in a greater potential for indigenously developed engines to be used in these platforms.
PTC’s expertise is being developed in the manufacture of critical components for Titanium Alloy Aero Engines/Aircraft using innovative Investment Casting – Hot Isostatic Pressing (IC – HIP) technology in collaboration with GTRE – DRDO.
This will strengthen the country’s indigenous defence capabilities as a whole. One such critical component, the Engine Bevel Pinion Housing prototype, has already been developed in collaboration with GTRE in a very short period of time.